 Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's...  The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Page 111by Alexander Pope - 1804Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1777 - 262 pages
...Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, fmiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Soerates, that man is great indeed. What's Fame ? a fancy'd life in others breath, A thing beyond us,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1778 - 410 pages
...Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, fmiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed. 235 Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame ? a fancy'd life in others;breatn, A thing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 392 pages
...means obtains, Or failing, fmiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed 235 Like Socrates, that Man is great indeed. What's Fame...fancy'd life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death. Juft what you hear, you have, and what's unknown The fame (my Lord) if Tully's,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 414 pages
...Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, finiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed z35 Like Socrates, that Man is great indeed. What 's Fame ? a fa1:cy'd life in others' breath, A thing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 1164 pages
...ends by noble -means obtains, ¿ failing, 4niles in aim or in chains, ¿ : Like good AuMius lethim reign, or bleed- ¿ Like Socrates, that Man is great indeed. - - What's Fame P -a ¿ncy'd -lWe in øtberm':Westh¿ ¿ ¿ A thing¿heyond us, ev¿n beforeour de¿h¿ ‘ - -J¿,ft... | |
 | 1780 - 498 pages
...find it in greatnefs, the njere eccho of a naaie, forae in riches, vain purfuit ! — fome iu fame. " What's fame ? a fancy'd life in others breath, A thing beyond us, e'en before our death ! '' Some run the round of pleafure's giddy maze ! •* And e'en while faihion's brighteft arts decoy,... | |
 | William Scott (teacher of elocution, Edinburgh.) - 1781 - 470 pages
...more a knave. Who, noble ends, by noble means, obtains j Or, failing, fmiles in exile, or in chains j Like good Aurelius, let him reign ; or bleed, Like...fancy'd life in others breath : A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death. All fame is foreign, but of true defert ; Plays round the head, but comes not... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1783 - 322 pages
...Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, fmiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aureliut let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that Man is...breath, A thing beyond us, e'en before our death. Juft what you hear, you have, and what's unknown The fame (my Lord) if Tu//j's, or your own. All that... | |
 | Select lessons - 1785 - 156 pages
...Brocade ; Worth makes the Man, the Want of it the Fellow; The reft is all but Leather or Prunella. What's Fame ? a fancy'd Life in others Breath ; A Thing beyond us, ev'n before our Death. A Wit's a Feather, and a Chief's a Rod; An Honeft Man's the nobleft Work of... | |
 | William Scott - 1789 - 416 pages
...but the more a fool, the more a kr.ave.. Who noble ends by noble means obraius, . Or, failing, fmiles in exile or in chains ; Like good Aurelius let him...indeed. What's fame ? — a fancy'd life in others breadr;A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death. All fame is foreign, but of true.defert ; Plays round... | |
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